Editor's Note: These are excerpts from past editions of the Press-Register.

1862

• "PRIVATE DESPATCH.

"RICHMOND, July 4. -- Mr. A.E. Ledyard: Willie Ledyard killed in the battle of the first; Erwin Ledyard killed in the battle of the first; Erwin wounded in the leg and arm. I am safe and well. W.M. LEDYARD."

• "THE TWO GENERALS HILL. -- Major-General A.P. Hill is a Virginian, promoted from a Brigadier for conduct at the battle of Williamsburg. Maj. Gen. Daniel H. Hill (or Bethel Hill) is a South Carolinian, from York, who first achieved distinction at the battle of Bethel. Both commanded divisions early engaged in the great engagement of Thursday and Friday last."

Sunday, July 7, 1912

• "Captain John A.Welch, managing owner of the excursion steamer Apollo... says the story printed last Sunday in the Item to the effect that the steamer was a dispatch boat under Admiral Farragut, when he entered Mobile Bay, was not true.... [The Apollo] has never been South before. I looked her up in the government records while in New York and found that out."

• "Tea grown in Baldwin county was brought to Mobile by Mr. R.A. Torrans, who was given a branch by Mr. Tom Wilburn, an Englishman, living near Zundels.

"Mr. Wilburn has about 6 acres of tea under cultivation and has raised it successfully for about 6 years. He does not raise it for a commercial investment, but for his immediate friends and his own use. He is the first man who ever raised tea in Baldwin county, it is thought."

Tuesday, July 7, 1937

• "Four people were rescued by the coast guard Tuesday afternoon after they had clung for an hour to their sloop, which overturned in the Mobile Bay ship channel near Beacon 30."

"Christy told The Register the sloop, one of the Mobile Yacht Club fleet, was bowled over by a hefty shift in the wind.... Lieut.-Comdr. George W. McKean [of the rescue speed boat from the Coast Guard cutter Tampa] was first to reach the overturned sloop."

• "Louise Knudsen Hamil, director of the Four Arts Club of Murphy High School, has been cast in the role of Sophy Prescott in the Blackfriar production of 'First Lady,' to be presented at the University of Alabama on July 10."

• "The safe of the branch post office in Hammel's department store -- its combination lock knocked off -- was missing $1,000 in postal funds; the post office and two adjoining buildings at Magazine Point were in charred ruins after yeggmen had supposedly blown open the post office safe and the strong box of Adam Glass & Company showed traces of tampering Tuesday."

Saturday, July 7, 1962

• "OXFORD, Miss., -- Author William Faulkner... died Friday at 64."

• "A gasoline price war is spreading throughout Mobile County and Friday night most stations were selling fuel at five cents below normal prices.... Normally stations handling major oil company products sell premium gasoline for 37.9 cents per gallon, while regular goes for 33.9 cents per gallon. Stations handling independent company products usually list their prices two cents below the majors.

"The price war started Tuesday when one independent station started giving away a free prize with every 10 gallons of gasoline. Other independents... slashed five cents off the price of their lower octane fuel. The next day the same amount was cut off higher octane gasoline.

"The major stations, seeing the price changes at the independents, joined in Thursday."